Festivals and concert series
The early music festival scene in the UK is extraordinarily creative and adventurous. Emerging and established artists alike are bridging the gap between the past and the present with inspiring programmes at festivals and in concert series across the country.
Stoke Newington Early Music Festival
Stoke Newington Early Music Festival (SNEMF) was founded by Vanessa Coode as a community event, based in Stoke Newington, London, UK. It brings the finest early music performers to this historic area of London.
A fine array of international artists visits this historic corner of London to perform music from the 12th - 18th centuries.
Throughout the year
Stoke Newington
Coming Soon
St Cecilia's Hall
St Cecilia's Hall is Scotland's oldest concert hall and hosts a wide range of early music concerts, many featuring original period instruments.
- Throughout the year
Sat, 14 June 2025- Edinburgh, Scotland
English Haydn Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sat, 14 June 2025
- St Mary Magdalene Church, Bridgnorth
Early Music at Wigmore Hall
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 14 June 2025
- Wigmore Hall, London
Worcestershire Early Music
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 15 June 2025
- Angel Centre, Worcester
Oxford Festival of the Arts
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sun, 15 June 2025
- Oxford
Coming Up Next
Stour Music
- ☀️Summer festival
- Fri, 20 June 2025
- All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph
Garsington Opera
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sat, 21 June 2025
- Wormsley, Buckinghamshire
The Grange Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Mon, 30 June 2025
- Northington, Hampshire
York Early Music Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Fri, 4 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
Music in Country Churches
- ☀️Summer series
- Sun, 6 July 2025
- Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, East Sussex, Devon, Suffolk
Old Chapel Court Concerts
- ☀️Summer series
- Sun, 6 July 2025
- Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury
Early Music by Candlelight Summer Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sun, 6 July 2025
- Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Lichfield Festival
- Throughout the year
- Tue, 8 July 2025
- Lichfield, Staffordshire
Buxton International Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Thu, 10 July 2025
- Buxton
The Ryedale Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sun, 13 July 2025
- Ryedale, North Yorkshire
Surrey Bach Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Mon, 14 July 2025
- St Mary’s Church, Stoke D’Abernon
Lewes Baroquefest
- ☀️Summer festival
- Thu, 17 July 2025
- Lewes, East Sussex
Music at Paxton
- ☀️Summer festival
- Fri, 18 July 2025
- Paxton House, Scottish Borders
Early & Baroque Music at the BBC Proms
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sun, 20 July 2025
- Royal Albert Hall, London
Plumstead Peculiars
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 20 July 2025
- The Ascension Church, Plumstead
The Music Summer School and Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sat, 2 August 2025
- Gresham's School, Holt
St Clement Danes Sunday Recital Series
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 24 August 2025
- St Clement Danes Church, London
St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 5 September 2025
- St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Folkestone Early Music
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 21 September 2025
- The Grand Hotel, Folkestone
Tetbury Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 27 September 2025
- St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Banbury Early Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 27 September 2025
- St Mary's Church, Banbury
Salisbury Musick
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 3 October 2025
- In and around Salisbury, predominantly in Salisbury Medieval Hall, the Salisbury Museum and St Thomas’s Church.
Colchester Early Music
- ❄️Winter series
- Sun, 5 October 2025
- St Andrew's Church, Marks Tey
Brighton Early Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 10 October 2025
- Brighton
Brecon Baroque Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 17 October 2025
- Brecon
Music in the Round
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 25 October 2025
- Sheffield
London Bach Society
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 31 October 2025
- City of London
London Festival of Baroque Music
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 1 November 2025
- St John's Smith Square, London
London International Festival of Early Music
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Wed, 12 November 2025
- Blackheath, London
Mayfield Festival
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 26 April 2026
- Mayfield, East Sussex
Coming Later A-Z
Barbican Centre & Milton Court
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Barbican Centre, London
Baroquestock Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
Bath Bachfest
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Bath
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Beverley and East Riding, Yorkshire
Bristol Early Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Clifton, Bristol
Burghclere Baroque
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Church of the Ascension, Burghclere
Cambridge Early Music
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Cambridge
Chipping Campden Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- St James' Church, Chipping Campden
Concerts at the National Musicians' Church
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Holy Sepulchre Church, Holborn Viaduct
Concerts in the West
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Ilminster, Somerset
Dolmetsch Centenary at Haslemere Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Haslemere
Early Voices/Lleisiau Cynnar
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Fairest Isle Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Isle of Wight - Newport, Ryde and Ventnor
Handel Hendrix House
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Handel Hendrix House
Harpsichord en Fête
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh and King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen
Hatfield House Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Hatfield House, Hatfield, Herts
Iberian & Latin American Music Society
- 🍂Autumn series
- TBA
- Numerous venues - London & Manchester
JdP Concert Series
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Chapel, St Hilda's College
Keble Early Music Festival
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Keble College Chapel, Oxford
King's Lynn Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- King's Lynn, Norfolk
Lammermuir Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Lammermuir, Scotland
Leamington Music
- ❄️Winter series
- TBA
- St Mary's Church, Warwick
London Handel Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St George's, Hanover Square
Medieval Music in the Dales
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Bolton Castle, North Yorkshire
Music@Malling
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- West Malling, Kent
New College Early Music Series
- ☀️Summer series
- TBA
- The New Space, Oxford
Newbury Spring Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Newbury, Berkshire
Ornaments of the Baroque
- 🍂Autumn series
- TBA
- LSO St Luke's, Old Street, London
Otley Baroque
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- All Saints’ Church, Otley
Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Various locations in the Purbecks, Dorset
Roman River Spring Concerts
- 🌱Spring series
- TBA
- Colchester, Essex
Saffron Hall
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
Sands Films Music Room
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Rotherhithe, London
Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Church of St Mary, Kenardington, Ashford
Shakespeare in Music
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Stratford-upon-Avon
St George's Bristol Baroque Series
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St George's Bristol
Temple Music Foundation
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Temple, London
The Georgian Concert Society
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
Tilford Bach Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Tilford, Surrey
Unmeasured Chamber Concerts
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Octagon Chapel, Norwich
Vermeer Chamber Concerts
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- London
Wimbledon International Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Wimbledon
York Early Music Christmas Festival
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- York
love:Handel
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Norwich